Wis. reps vote to boot reporting center off university campus

[old_tony]

The legislature did the right thing. The "Center for Investigative Journalism" is a left-wing organization funded by Soros. The University is giving them free office space. The guy who serves as its lead man moved over from editor of the hard-left alt-weekly Isthmus.

Does anyone think that one of the conservative news services (there are a couple in Wisconsin -- The MacIver Institute, Media Trackers, Wisconsin Reporter) funded by the Kochs could get free office space from the UW without the left putting up a big stink?

You are full of shirt Tony. Even your hero, Charlie Sykes (local conservative radio blowhard), thinks this is a stupid, petty decision. In fact this Center was the first to write about the "high speed" rail story that I am sure you and your friends jerked to while reading.

Charlie Sykes is wrong in this instance.

So you'd be fine with the UW giving free space to the MacIver Institute or Media Trackers? I call bullshirt.

 

[BadgerBeer]

The legislature did the right thing. The "Center for Investigative Journalism" is a left-wing organization funded by Soros. The University is giving them free office space. The guy who serves as its lead man moved over from editor of the hard-left alt-weekly Isthmus.

Does anyone think that one of the conservative news services (there are a couple in Wisconsin -- The MacIver Institute, Media Trackers, Wisconsin Reporter) funded by the Kochs could get free office space from the UW without the left putting up a big stink?

You are full of shirt Tony. Even your hero, Charlie Sykes (local conservative radio blowhard), thinks this is a stupid, petty decision. In fact this Center was the first to write about the "high speed" rail story that I am sure you and your friends jerked to while reading.

Charlie Sykes is wrong in this instance.

So you'd be fine with the UW giving free space to the MacIver Institute or Media Trackers? I call bullshirt.

Part of the deal is that students get internships in exchange for the office space. And as I pointed out there has been reporting from this Center that is not favorable to the left. This is just another example of the Fitzwalkers being little benches.

 

[AtticusFinch]

Wow.

Government run amok, once again. And what gets me most is that the same people who I suspect are behind this are the ones who use the "government run amok" rhetoric the most.

Thought this should be quoted again in light of o_t's entirely predictable claptrap.

 

[wisportswriter]

The legislature did the right thing. The "Center for Investigative Journalism" is a left-wing organization funded by Soros.

When you're far to the right, the middle appears to be to the left.

The Center is not left-wing.
And if Charlie Sykes is indeed wrong, so is just about every person or entity I've heard weigh in on this, including Wisconsin Reporter.

 

[old_tony]

Like I said, move The MacIver Institute or MediaTrackers into the same arrangement and watch the left go crazy.

 

[old_tony]

The legislature did the right thing. The "Center for Investigative Journalism" is a left-wing organization funded by Soros.

When you're far to the right, the middle appears to be to the left.

The Center is not left-wing.
And if Charlie Sykes is indeed wrong, so is just about every person or entity I've heard weigh in on this, including Wisconsin Reporter.

When you're so far to the left you see Soros as a guy from the center.

 

[wisportswriter]

I never said Soros was center. I judge a publication by its content, not its funding source. And CIJ's content is not left-wing.
Nor is mine. Although I have been accused of bias by both sides.
Sincerely,
Erin Murphy, political reporter, Dubuque Telegraph Herald